Via Mark Levin, here's what happens when Doing Something is more important than knowing what you're doing. You've got a governor here who's facing reelection in 2014 and may well end up being the national frontrunner for his party's nomination in 2016 if Hillary doesn't run. He's feeling political pressure not just from above, in the form of a president who's vowed to drum up Do Something fever among Democrats nationally, but from below in the form of a rich, high-profile nanny-state mayor for whom this is a pet issue. One of his top national rivals is also scrambling to put together a gun-control package to impress progressives, and the bigmouth from the state next door was inevitably going to start sucking up the local media oxygen by chiming in on this subject too. Action had to be taken, and it had to be taken quickly to impress a left that's grown suspicious of him lately. Result: For the moment, it's illegal for cops to carry magazines with more than seven bullets in New York State. You wanted Cuomo and the state legislature to Do Something, New York. They did it.

Mental health experts say a new tougher New York state gun control law might interfere with treatment of potentially dangerous people and even discourage them from seeking help.

The law would require therapists, doctors, nurses and social workers to tell government authorities if they believe a patient is likely to harm himself or others. That could lead to revoking the patient’s gun permit and seizing any guns…

“The people who arguably most need to be in treatment and most need to feel free to talk about these disturbing impulses, may be the ones we make least likely to do so,” said the director of law, ethics and psychiatry at Columbia. “They will either simply not come, or not report the thoughts that they have.”

“If people with suicidal or homicidal impulses avoid treatment for fear of being reported in this way, they may be more likely to act on those impulses,” he said.

That’s a solid result for gun control. The police are momentarily in limbo legally and the threat to the public might actually increase as would-be spree killers decide it’s now too risky to seek therapy. Get Cuomo’s office a video camera and a group of kids reading letters about gun control, stat.

Update: High-capacity magazines may not be the only loophole that’s snared New York police. According to one lawmaker, cops might be technically be banned from carrying on school grounds too.

there is no reason for cops to have greater capacity mags than civilians. They both have to defend against the same criminals. The cops have an advantage because they usually operate in teams. If they think they need 30 rounders, the people need 30 rounders for the same reason

There is a very small but genuine difference between cops and subjects, err, citizens. While we may only defend ourselves, our homes, and others in harm’s way, they are allowed to go on the offensive, chase people down, and storm fortified positions, and remove threats such as friendly Pekingese and terriers.

According to the government, only the government police needs high capacity magazines, as why else would he government buy 1.2 billion rounds of hollow tip ammunition? Also drones, armored vehicles, etc., and doing away with the 4th Amendment, etc. They’re not as stupid as they look.

Now would be the time to gum up the legislative works, somehow, and force the Rat enforcers to live by the same rules as are applied to everyone else. Does the GOP not have any power or backbone in NY (rhetorical question).

The American people need to DEMAND that NO legislation at ANY level gets passed that hasn't been published for a week for review by both the legislature and the public.

Everyone in America should be outraged that this got pushed through so quickly, whether or not you believe in gun control. It goes against the very basic idea of representative government. Democrats will keep doing this to ALL OF US if we let them.

You DU lurkers - imagine if Republicans took advantage of a tragedy at an abortion clinic to ram an anti-abortion law through. How would you feel about that?

The cops have an advantage because they usually operate in teams. If they think they need 30 rounders, the people need 30 rounders for the same reason.

Cops may also be at a disadvantage in that way too many don't spend enough time at the range once they graduate from the academy and as a result, they are less proficient with a firearm than the civilian who carries.

Not that long ago there was a viable republican check on democrat power in NY. Republicans held the senate my entire life until a few years ago. The former republican upstate has been destroyed by motor voter laws and same day registration. Now all the idiots that can barely drag themselves out of bed in the morning are registered voters.

No doubt they will fix this oversight, and make a similar exception for the bodyguards protecting Very Important People and the armed school guards protecting the children of same. For the time being the cops will just wink at this law: who is going to prosecute?

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